A/N: It's a dreadfully short one but needs to be here. Enjoy :)
Stuart sat in Burke's office fighting back tears as he watched the CCTV from his office. He caught his heart racing as he watched Ewan doing the mundane activities in life such as reading his e-mails, shredding letters that he wanted no one else to read. Whenever Ewan went to leave the room, Stuart felt his heart sink and he hated knowing how pathetic he must be appearing.
There was a light tap at the door and Stuart pressed pause before turning to look over at Jackie. He knew that she was going to ask questions and he knew he shouldn't tell anyone anything but he knew he could trust Jackie. Jackie was like a sister to him. He'd trust her with his life.
"I've made the biggest mistake of my life."
"A bad mistake?" She asked quietly as she pulled up a chair next to him and looked at him.
"Yes and no." He sighed as he twirled the remote around his fingers. "I spent the night with Ewan McIntyre."
Jackie was silent for a few moments before leaning over and taking hold of his hand. "That's how you got these tapes."
"He had cans of white paint underneath his bathroom sink." Stuart whispered staring at the hazy figure of Ewan on the screen. "I just felt my heart sink and then when I noticed the fresh paint had chips in it already…" He stopped talking and let the tears fall. "Jackie, what have I done?"
"Nothing. Don't you worry about a single thing!" She took hold of his face in her hands and made her look at him. "We've all done it, Stuart."
"I know but I feel like I let the boss down."
"No if anything you've probably found us the biggest lead yet to come…"
"I wish I had your positive attitude."
"You do. Now press play and lets see what happened to our girl." Stuart sighed before pressing the button.
Together they watched as Denzel led Sarah into the office, they watched as they had rough sex against the office. That explained the rape thing, it appeared the two of them liked it rough. Stuart looked at Jackie but he could see she was looking down at the floor. Definitely wasn't anything pretty.
"Jackie!" He said poking her before noticing the door opened. Standing in the doorway was Ralph McIntyre.
"Ah, big brother learnt that little brother was sharing the same woman."
"Bet that didn't go down too well." Stuart said realising that he had been holding his breath fearing that something would show it was Ewan.
"Told you everything would be okay." She said squeezing his hand before nudging her head towards the door. "Go tell Burke."
***
Burke listened to the man, his teeth biting into his bottom lip. Something still wasn't plausible to him. "You don't appear to understand that Ralph was back in that office at the time of the murder…"
That's when Stuart had an idea. "What if Denzel felt guilty afterwards? Come on, if you found your brother sleeping with the woman you loved as roughly as they were there would have been words shared between them?"
"Right…"
"Denzel could have felt guilty afterwards. Ralph is the only family we have and Ewan said it earlier to Jackie and Robbie "family is a big thing". Denzel could have realised that he'd lost something important to him and decided to destroy the one thing that stepped in his way!"
"And from the mind of a young boy he believed his brother would want him back too…"
"Exactly."
"Get Stratton and McIntyre together in an interrogation room. I want to watch how they act together for a bit." Burke ordered.
